'No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this.' These are the words that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun-- just before she takes her own life, and many others, in a shocking act of carnage. She must have been insane-- but Jane Hawk knows better. She is on the trail of a secret cabal of powerful players who think themselves above the law and beyond punishment. Driven by love for her lost husband and by fear for the five-year-old son she has sent into hiding, Jane has become a predator-- and those she is hunting will have nowhere to run.